Marian Shrine and Signal Tower, Old Head of Kinsale, County Cork - October 2000

Marian Shrine and Signal Tower at the Old Head of Kinsale. This was one of a chain of coastal signal towers built during the Napoleonic Wars as a protection against French Invasion. Since I took this image the tower has been restored and the area around the tower now forms a memorial garden to the victims of the sinking of the Cunard Line ship RMS LUSITANIA during the First World War.

Roches Point, County Cork, Eire - August 2002

The settlement of Roche's Point grew up to serve the maritime community providing homes for coastguard staff and pilots working in Cork Harbour. There are two abandoned signal towers and the Roche's Point Lighthouse.

Schull Harbour, County Cork - August 01, 2001

Schull Harbour

The Healy Pass, County Cork - July 31, 2001

The Healy Pass (R574) runs from the R572 at Adrigole in County Cork to the R571 near Lauragh in County Kerry. It is a popular tourist route with the pass at an altitude of 300m giving panoramas towards Bantry Bay to the south-east and the Kenmare River to the north-west. The original track, called the Kerry Pass, was cut during the Great Famine as a poor relief public works project. It was renamed for Timothy Michael Healy, former Governor-General of the Irish Free State, who died in 1931 shortly after the road was improved.

Baltimore Harbour, County Cork - May 31, 2001

Baltimore Harbour

Allihies, County Cork - May 31, 2001

Allihies Village viewed from Billeragh.

West Cork Model Railway Village, Clonakilty, May 28, 2001

West Cork Model Railway Village wh ich opened in the 1990s aims to recreate areas served by the now closed West Cork Railway. The model village features G Scale model railways running around representation of areas of County Cork. y.

West Cork Model Railway Village, Clonakilty, May 28, 2001

West Cork Model Railway Village wh ich opened in the 1990s aims to recreate areas served by the now closed West Cork Railway. The model village features G Scale model railways running around representation of areas of County Cork.

West Cork Model Railway Village, Clonakilty, May 28, 2001

West Cork Model Railway Village wh ich opened in the 1990s aims to recreate areas served by the now closed West Cork Railway. The model village features G Scale model railways running around representation of areas of County Cork. y.

West Cork Model Railway Village, Clonakilty, May 28, 2001

West Cork Model Railway Village wh ich opened in the 1990s aims to recreate areas served by the now closed West Cork Railway. The model village features G Scale model railways running around representation of areas of County Cork. y.

West Cork Model Railway Village, Clonakilty, May 28, 2001

West Cork Model Railway Village wh ich opened in the 1990s aims to recreate areas served by the now closed West Cork Railway. The model village features G Scale model railways running around representation of areas of County Cork. y.

West Cork Model Railway Village, Clonakilty, May 28, 2001

West Cork Model Railway Village wh ich opened in the 1990s aims to recreate areas served by the now closed West Cork Railway. The model village features G Scale model railways running around representation of areas of County Cork. y.

West Cork Model Railway Village, Clonakilty, May 28, 2001

West Cork Model Railway Village wh ich opened in the 1990s aims to recreate areas served by the now closed West Cork Railway. The model village features G Scale model railways running around representation of areas of County Cork. y.

Mizen Head, County Cork - August 30, 2000

Mizen Head (Irish: Carn Uí Néid; is located at the extremity of the Mizen Peninsula in the district of Carbery in County Cork, southwest Ireland. Mizen Head is one of the extreme points of the island of Ireland and is a major tourist attraction, noted for its dramatic cliff scenery. One of the main transatlantic shipping routes passes close by to the south, and Mizen Head was, for many seafarers, the first (or last) sight of Europe. The tip of the peninsula is almost an island, cut off by a deep chasm, now spanned by a bridge; this gives access to an old signal station, a weather station, and a lighthouse. The signal station, once permanently manned, is now a museum housing displays relating to the site's strategic significance for transatlantic shipping and communications, including the pioneering efforts of Guglielmo Marconi. The "99 steps" which formed part of the original access route have been supplemented by a series of paths and viewing platforms, and a full range of visitor facilities is available at the entrance to the site. Mizen Head is not the most southerly point on the mainland of Ireland; nearby Brow Head holds that title, being several metres further south. Nevertheless, geography books have long measured the length of Ireland, diagonally northeast-to-southwest, as "from Fair Head to Mizen Head"[4] or north-to-south "from Malin Head to Mizen Head".

Crookhaven, County Cork - August 30, 2000

O'Sullivan's Bar - Crookhaven

Mizen Head, County Cork - August 30, 2000

Mizen Head (Irish: Carn Uí Néid; is located at the extremity of the Mizen Peninsula in the district of Carbery in County Cork, southwest Ireland. Mizen Head is one of the extreme points of the island of Ireland and is a major tourist attraction, noted for its dramatic cliff scenery. One of the main transatlantic shipping routes passes close by to the south, and Mizen Head was, for many seafarers, the first (or last) sight of Europe. The tip of the peninsula is almost an island, cut off by a deep chasm, now spanned by a bridge; this gives access to an old signal station, a weather station, and a lighthouse. The signal station, once permanently manned, is now a museum housing displays relating to the site's strategic significance for transatlantic shipping and communications, including the pioneering efforts of Guglielmo Marconi. The "99 steps" which formed part of the original access route have been supplemented by a series of paths and viewing platforms, and a full range of visitor facilities is available at the entrance to the site. Mizen Head is not the most southerly point on the mainland of Ireland; nearby Brow Head holds that title, being several metres further south. Nevertheless, geography books have long measured the length of Ireland, diagonally northeast-to-southwest, as "from Fair Head to Mizen Head"[4] or north-to-south "from Malin Head to Mizen Head".

Mizen Head, County Cork - August 30, 2000

Mizen Head (Irish: Carn Uí Néid; is located at the extremity of the Mizen Peninsula in the district of Carbery in County Cork, southwest Ireland. Mizen Head is one of the extreme points of the island of Ireland and is a major tourist attraction, noted for its dramatic cliff scenery. One of the main transatlantic shipping routes passes close by to the south, and Mizen Head was, for many seafarers, the first (or last) sight of Europe. The tip of the peninsula is almost an island, cut off by a deep chasm, now spanned by a bridge; this gives access to an old signal station, a weather station, and a lighthouse. The signal station, once permanently manned, is now a museum housing displays relating to the site's strategic significance for transatlantic shipping and communications, including the pioneering efforts of Guglielmo Marconi. The "99 steps" which formed part of the original access route have been supplemented by a series of paths and viewing platforms, and a full range of visitor facilities is available at the entrance to the site. Mizen Head is not the most southerly point on the mainland of Ireland; nearby Brow Head holds that title, being several metres further south. Nevertheless, geography books have long measured the length of Ireland, diagonally northeast-to-southwest, as "from Fair Head to Mizen Head"[4] or north-to-south "from Malin Head to Mizen Head".

Mizen Head, County Cork - August 30, 2000

Mizen Head (Irish: Carn Uí Néid; is located at the extremity of the Mizen Peninsula in the district of Carbery in County Cork, southwest Ireland. Mizen Head is one of the extreme points of the island of Ireland and is a major tourist attraction, noted for its dramatic cliff scenery. One of the main transatlantic shipping routes passes close by to the south, and Mizen Head was, for many seafarers, the first (or last) sight of Europe. The tip of the peninsula is almost an island, cut off by a deep chasm, now spanned by a bridge; this gives access to an old signal station, a weather station, and a lighthouse. The signal station, once permanently manned, is now a museum housing displays relating to the site's strategic significance for transatlantic shipping and communications, including the pioneering efforts of Guglielmo Marconi. The "99 steps" which formed part of the original access route have been supplemented by a series of paths and viewing platforms, and a full range of visitor facilities is available at the entrance to the site. Mizen Head is not the most southerly point on the mainland of Ireland; nearby Brow Head holds that title, being several metres further south. Nevertheless, geography books have long measured the length of Ireland, diagonally northeast-to-southwest, as "from Fair Head to Mizen Head"[4] or north-to-south "from Malin Head to Mizen Head".

Youghal, County Cork - September 01, 2000

Clock Gate Tower

Youghal, County Cork - September 01, 2000

Youghal Habour

River Lee, Glenbrook, County Cork - August 31, 2000

The River Lee, viewed up stream at Glenbook.